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COMPARISON OF NUTRITIONAL VALUE OF TRANSGENIC PEANUT EXPRESSING bar AND rcg3 GENES WITH NON-TRANSGENIC COUNTERPARTS

UM-E-ROBAB¹, TARIQ MAHMOOD¹*, YUSUF ZAFAR², AUDIL RASHID¹ AND M. KAUSAR NAWAZ SHAH³

Abstract: The transgenic peanut plants expressing bar and rcg3 genes were subjected to assessment of any change in nutritional value of the crop at various locations. The protein and fat contents of transgenic lines were compared with the non-transgenic parent varieties. Protein content in the transgenic lines was higher as compared to that in non-transgenic counterparts and differences among locations for fat and protein content were significant. No differences among fatty acids were recorded for genes, events and locations. Irrespective of small differences, all the values were in range described for this crop and transgenic lines appeared to be substantially equivalent to non-transgenic parent varieties.

Key words: Transgenic peanut, bar and rcg3 gene, Nutritional value comparison.

¹Department of Environmental Science, Pir Mehr Ali Shah Arid Agriculture University, Rawalpindi, Pakistan

²International Atomic Energy Agency, Austria

³Department of Plant Breeding and Genetics, Pir Mehr Ali Shah Arid Agriculture University, Rawalpindi, Pakistan

^*Corresponding author’s e-mail: qiratm@yahoo.com